Title page of a 1928 edition with Art Nouveau decoration In 1898 Holz published his masterpiece, the poetry volume Phantasus, a work in which he displayed his linguistic virtuosity. The work describes the milieu of slighted hungry poets of Holz's own neighborhood in Berlin. Holz had worked on the poems throughout his creative life, often amending, casting aside, and revisiting his varied texts. A typographical feature of the poetry is that all the lines are centered on an axis giving both a right and left ragged edge (common in the modern day of computers but rare at the time). For example, the following (practically untranslatable) passage about St. George's Church in Rastenburg, from 'Childhood paradise'.

'Dafnis' (1904) In 1903, he wrote Songs on an old Lute inspired by the poetry of the. This volume was later expanded as Dafnis and published by Reinhard Piper, and one of Holz's few financial successes. The poems incorporated in the volume's, design, subject, and layout celebrations of Baroque eating and erotic events. Holz also received recognition for his tragicomody Traumulus (1904), the first of five he created with his friend Oskar Jerschke. The work was produced on many stages upon its publication and in 1935 it became the basis of a film produced by starring in the title role. Between 1910 and 1929 Holz lived in the district of Berlin. He divorced and remarried in 1926, and is buried in an at the.

Pat Metheny New Chautauqua. Several monuments have been erected in his honor.

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